General Information

The Salkom Law Firm is one of the top law firms in Ukraine that specialises in providing complex and comprehensive legal advice and assistance to a diverse range of business clients. The Firm’s lawyers have received thorough and comprehensive training and enjoy extensive expertise in various areas of law, and the Firm’s consultants and experts include renowned Ukrainian and foreign lawyers. Salkom’s employees are fluent in foreign languages and this allows them to communicate easily and effectively with international clients.

Antitrust Law

Banking and Finance

The Firm’s banking and finance practice provides full range of services in the area of banking law, finance law and currency exchange regulations. Our lawyers advise banks and financial institutions and their clients.

Consulting

Highly qualified specialists of Salkom-Service have a wealth of experience in providing advice on the matters of company formation and management, perform objective analysis of a company’s strengths, weaknesses and opportunities, and suggests innovative solutions for optimising the efficiency of management, technology and business.

Contract Law

Corporate Law. М&A

The Salkom Law Firm has many years’ worth of experience in providing complete and feasible solutions to large and medium sized businesses both in Ukraine and abroad. The Firm’s Corporate law and M&A practice is known for its expertise in advising on complex, comprehensive and innovative M&A transactions.

Energy and Natural Resources

Intellectual Property

The Salkom Law Firm’s Intellectual Property practice deals with the creation, acquisition, protection, development and exploitation of copyrights, trademarks, design rights and websites. We also undertake trademark registration and patent litigation.

Labour and Employment

The Salkom Law Firm has a broad range of experience in providing advice on various matters of employment law, including collective bargaining agreements, service contracts for a company’s management, personnel reduction issues, and also undertakes employment litigation.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

For more than 20 years the Salkom Law Firm has been justly considered to be second to none in the area of litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution. The Firm’s lawyers act for clients in all courts in Ukraine, from courts of local jurisdiction and up to the Supreme Court of Ukraine, and abroad, including international commercial arbitration. The Firm’s expertise covers all forms and stages of dispute resolution, ranging from dialogue and negotiations through mediation to arbitration and court proceedings.

Real Estate and Construction

The Firm’s Real Estate practice advises on the acquisition and disposal of real estate, drafts all types of contracts and agreements with real property, including leases and property management agreements; we also focus of construction matters and handle complex transactions with land that entail financial and taxation aspects. The Firm has a renowned litigation practice in real estate.

Securities and Capital Markets

The Firm advises clients on the matters related to the issuance and circulation of various kinds of securities, share sale and purchase contracts, listings on Ukrainian stock exchanges, using securities as an instrument for fund raising. Our lawyers provide issuers of securities with assistance in compliance with fund market regulations.

Tax and Customs Law

The Firm provides advice on a broad spectrum of taxation matters, including those that arise during import/export transactions, real property conveyancing, and in M&A deals. We also act for our clients before tax authorities and defend cases in court.

What we do

The Firm’s lawyers provide a full spectrum of legal services to a broad range of businesses engaged in various industries. Our lawyers have been trained in multiple disciplines so they can develop innovative solutions to complex legal problems and provide top-quality services tailored to the specific needs of the client.

Advises on reception and effect of the permissions in the construction industry; interaction with the state authorities and self-government authorities while assigning postal address to real estate objects; payment and control of share contributions by the construction clients in order to fund the development of engineering, transportation and social infrastructure of residential settlements.

Legal support of activities of the Client with regard to acquisition and alienation of real estate. Develops vehicles of acquisition and alienation of land and movable property located on the land, including unique vehicles.

Performs complex analysis of real estate objects, including analysis of the history of the title and ownership of real property.

Provides services related to state registration of material rights to real estate, and related advice.

Participates in working groups established for the preparation of complex company due diligence in the part of verification of compliance with the law regulating land relations.

Investments

Is actively involved in development of algorithms for cooperation between business entities by exercising investment agreements and joint ventures’ activities agreements, including the legal registration of the distribution of the parties of the joint activity. Develops projects relevant treaties and accompanies the process of their exercising.

Works on issues of housing investment through FFC, FON, and ISI institutions. Develops exclusive mechanisms for investment in housing, commercial buildings and mixed-use.

Has practical experience of using legal norms regulating anti-crisis measures in the field of urban development.

Judicial activity

Represents interests of the Clients at the courts of Ukraine, which includes the specialized Commercial and Administrative courts. Develops legal positions and strategies of protection of interests of Clients during legal actions in the sphere of construction, land and real estate.

Experience of legal defense of contractors at the courts in connection with payment of contributions to development of engineering, transportation, and social infrastructure.

Represents client interests related to collection of debts under the supply, purchase and sale agreements, in the court.

Has considerable experience of participation in the administrative court hearings of appeals against illegal actions and architecture and construction controlling authorities activities.

Participation in professional organizations

Deputy Head of the Committee for real estate and construction of the Association of Lawyers of Ukraine. Permanent member of the working group for real estate and the Committee for Agricultural and Industrial Complex of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. Active supporter of legal initiatives of European Business Associations. Author of numerous publications and comments for issues of construction, land, and real estate, etc.